Ground control to Major Tom - Is there a future for business analysis? - 1st Conference - 15_02_2016

GroundControltoMajorTom:Isthereafutureforbusinessanalysis?Ryan McKergow

Erin McManus

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How has the way we think about technology changed?

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Technology

1.  What are we building? 2.  How are we building it?

3.  Why are we building it?

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How has the evolution of agile impacted organisations?


1. Cross-functional teams


2.Sharedlanguage


3. Iterative software development

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Where does the business analyst fit in?


Australian corporate agile team

Business Analyst/s Developer/s Tester/s

Architect Product Owner Project Managers


Australian digital agile team

Business Analyst/s (optional)

Developer/s Tester/s

Product Owner Delivery Lead


Scrum teams (as per the Scrum Guide)

Development Team Product Owner Scrum Master


Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) teams

Agile Team Product Owner Scrum Master


Start ups & digital agencies

Development Team Project Manager or Business person


Analysis is critical

“Analysis doesn’t need a role to happen.

But… not having a Business Analyst is not an

excuse for it not to happen.”

Ryan McKergow


Where does that leave us?

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What’s the skillset of a T-shaped analyst?


T-shaped individual

Breadth

Depth


Adaptable

“…the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and

adjust to the changing environment in which it finds

itself.”

Some guy paraphrasing Charles Darwin


Adaptable


Adaptable analysts…

1.  Are curious & experiment 2.  See opportunities & think

ahead 3.  Are current & open 4.  See systems


Customer centric

Design >> << UX


Customer-centric

1.  User interviews

2.  Customer journey mapping

3.  Wireframing


Relentless pursuit for quality


Catalyst for collaboration


Catalyst for collaboration


Explain complexity succinctly


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“Our job as analysts is not just to write requirements.”

Ryan McKergow



Influencer of team dynamics


Influencer of team dynamics

1.  Drive consensus

2.  Shared understanding of goals

3.  Emotional intelligence &

humour

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Ground control to Major Tom: Is there a future for business analysis?

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